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A Forsyte Encounters the People
Photo by Felix Hanspach.
This short story is by John Galsworthy, author of the famous trilogy The Forsyte Saga. The set of novels is famous in part because it took on the idea of women as property, and marital rape, too. It’s an example of...
The price of belonging
This podcast cover is for a show that we’re recording tomorrow at my 7am, and the host’s 7pm in China. I was impressed by his use of AI to create this cover (using AI, obviously, and done in 5 minutes!). I also like the title, and look forw...
A Walk in New York with Parisian Friends, and Jane Jacobs
Have you heard any of these terms? “Walkability.” “Street life.” “Mixed use.” They are often evoked by professionals when talking about urban planning and housing, and can be traced to an American writer named Jane Jacobs, best known for Th...
Shoulder to shoulder in Australia’s men’s sheds
This shows pick up a conversation that began on Australian Broadcasting, when presenter Lisa Leong invited me to talk about third places on her weekly call-in show and asked listeners to tell us about their third places. We heard about park...
A Visit to India: The Art of Adda and Third Places
When I was first alerted to the Bengali conversational style, or practice, called adda, I thought of Ray Oldenburg’s description of what conversation in a third place is, or ought to be:
Conversation’s improved quality within the third p...
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Coauthor of The Great Good Place II, expert on third places and green urbanism, CEO of #BerkshirePubGroup, research associate at Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, and editor of the Encyclopedia of Community. Nuts about passenger rail.
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